Silence

A condition for the most luminous creations

January 10th 2024

Try to remain silent; let silence penetrate your being. Then, your unfettered mind will become capable of the most luminous creations. It is the little things that surge up from below that hinder our powers of thought: the worries, sorrows, grudges and all the prosaic cares of everyday life.
Only by freeing your mind will you be able to build a high ideal within yourself, and continually embellish, strengthen, amplify, intensify and divinize it, adding to it a purer, more beautiful and altruistic element every day. For an ideal is a real, powerful living being that dwells in heavenly realms, and from its dwelling place on high, it watches over you and keeps you from straying. It protects, instructs and inspires you.*
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